What went wrong? April 27, 2011 tornado outbreak.
James Spann, who is the chief meteorologist at ABC 33/40 in Birmingham and the host of the WeatherBrains podcast, looks back at the tornado outbreak that leaves him shaken 10 years later. On April 28, 2011, 352 people across Alabama from severe weather, including 62 tornadoes. James wonders what went wrong to lead to so many deaths? He believes the public's over-reliance on outdoor tornado sirens, and a lacking of access to severe weather alerts through tools like National Weather Service NOAA Weather Radio, could have left people off-guard.

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